This chapbook represents everywhere I've stepped and left a petal of myself behind. Flowers represent birth, growth, experience, and closure, stepping stones in life we will all have to face one way or another. When not writing literary fiction or film, EM Simms drafts revises labor relations documents and provides administrative support to management officials of thirty-one (31) Social Security offices in SFL, as a Management Support Specialist. EM's governmental areas of expertise are Labor Relations Management, Performance Quality, and Security and Facility workloads. She has served 22 years (and counting) as a Federal employee of the US Government and received two Regional Commissioner Citation Awards for her exemplary leadership and demonstration in job knowledge in the Atlanta Region.